On August 17, it was learned from the Supreme Procuratorate that the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Procuratorate decided to arrest Chen Wenku.

Chen Wenku is a former member of the Standing Committee of the Wuhai Municipal Party Committee and the head of the United Front Work Department (deputy department level). According to official sources, he is suspected of three crimes: bribery, huge property with unknown sources, illegal possession, possession of guns, and ammunition

He fell off the horse in May this year, and he is also related to a big tiger.

Right-hand assistant

Chen Wenku, male, from Anxin, Hebei, born in September 1960, 58 years old this year.According to public information, this official had never left Wuhai in his official career before he was dismissed.Deputy Director of the Development Planning Committee, etc.

The Hainan District of Wuhai City was an important turning point in Chen Wenku's official career.

Zheng Zhijun noticed that from July 2006 to January 2013, Chen Wenku worked in the district for nearly 7 years, from the head of the Hainan District to the secretary of the district party committee.In January 2013, Chen Wenku took office as the deputy mayor of Wuhai City. After serving as the deputy mayor for nearly five years, he was appointed as the head of the United Front Work Department of Wuhai City in November last year.

During his tenure as secretary of the Hainan District Party Committee, Bai Xiangqun was Wu Hai's top leader at the time.An insider told a financial reporter that after Bai Xiangqun came to power Wuhai, Chen Wenku became his right-hand man.Just before Chen Wenku was sacked, on April 25, Bai Xiangqun, the vice chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region government, became the fifth sack in Inner Mongolia since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Wuhai Coal City

For Bai Xiangqun, Wuhai is also an important stop in his official career.In March 2003, Bai Xiangqun took office in Wuhai, serving as mayor of Wuhai for 5 years and secretary of Wuhai Municipal Party Committee for 3 years.

Wuhai is a famous coal city.

When Bai Xiangqun arrived in Wuhai in 2003, Wuhai had more than 1,400 large and small coal mines and more than 1,000 state-owned heavy industrial enterprises, most of which were heavy polluting and energy-intensive enterprises. How to transform Wuhai was a major problem.

Hainan District, which developed relying on resource advantages, is one of the typical ones. This district mainly develops the energy industry based on coal and electric power and the raw material industry mainly based on building materials and chemicals. Although it has made great contributions to local economic growth.contribution, but the pollution caused is also becoming more and more serious.

According to the Democracy and Legal Times, because of environmental problems, the main leaders headed by Bai Xiangqun and the leaders of various districts were interviewed by the Ministry of Supervision and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and told that if they failed to meet the environmental governance requirements stipulated by the state, they would be dismissed on the spot.

In this context, Wuhai City has implemented a series of major reforms, including the implementation of industrial parks, agriculture into greenhouses, farmers into cities, residents to the countryside, the relocation of 150,000 mining area population, shanty town reconstruction, and urban-rural integration.project.

In February 2011, after working in Wuhai for 8 full years, Bai Xiangqun took up the new post of Secretary of the League Committee of Xilin Gol League. One year later, he was appointed Vice Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and was eventually dismissed from this position.After Bai Xiangqun fell, some media directly reported that Bai Xiangqun appeared in several key projects of local businessmen.

Fall

The fact is that with the continuous increase of the central government's anti-corruption efforts, many people in Wuhai have been sacked over the years.In August 2014, Bo Liangen, the former deputy mayor of Hohhot, was sentenced to death in the first instance for the crimes of dereliction of duty and bribery, with a two-year reprieve. He appealed in court, but the original sentence was upheld in the second instance.

Bo Lingen worked in Wuhai from February 1998 to October 2006. When he was the deputy mayor of Wuhai, Bai Xiangqun was the mayor of Wuhai at that time.

Previously, a person familiar with the matter told the media that Bo Liangen was initially investigated because someone in Wuhai City reported it, but after the investigation of the case, it was discovered that he also had corruption and bribery in Hohhot and in the supply and marketing cooperative.

More than a year after Bo Liangen's first trial, another Wuhai official was sacked—in November 2015, Hou Fengqi, the former secretary of the Wuhai Municipal Party Committee, was investigated.

Hou Fengqi came to Wuhai as mayor in 2008. At that time, Bai Xiangqun was promoted from mayor to secretary of the municipal party committee, and Hou Fengqi took over as mayor.

After Hou Fengqi became the mayor of Wuhai, he almost completely denied his previous work, which made it difficult for Bai Xiangqun to deal with it, and the relationship between the two became delicate.Because Hou Fengqi was born as a secretary and had deep connections in the officialdom in Inner Mongolia, Bai Xiangqun chose to back down and seek peace. Many officials in Wuhai City told reporters from Caijing magazine.

△Bai Xiangqun (middle) and Hou Fengqi (right)

It has been less than a year since Hou Fengqi was dropped. In 2016, another deputy of Bai Xiangqun was dropped.

In September 2016, He Yonglin, Secretary of the Bayannaoer Municipal Party Committee, who had been appointed to the main hall, was sacked. According to the indictment of the Tongliao City Procuratorate, He Yonglin had collected money in several positions. The indictment listed the first place where He Yonglin collected money.It is in Wuhai.

According to public information, He Yonglin was a cadre who started from Wuhai. When Bai Xiangqun was the mayor of Wuhai, he served as the deputy mayor of Wuhai.After Bai Xiangqun was defeated, the local anti-corruption efforts in Wuhai continued unabated.

In May of this year, three people were investigated in Wuhai. They were Chen Wenku, member of the Standing Committee of the Wuhai Municipal Party Committee and head of the United Front Work Department, Su He, former secretary of the Hainan District Party Committee of Wuhai City, and Qi Guofang, secretary general of the Wuhai Municipal Government.

And they were more or less related to Bai Xiangqun.During Bai Xiangqun's tenure as municipal party secretary, Su He served as mayor of Hainan District of Wuhai City, Chen Wenku served as secretary of Hainan District Party Committee, and Qi Guofang was deputy secretary-general of Wuhai Municipal Committee.

Special charges, let's talk about Chen Wenku.

According to official information, Chen Wenku is suspected of three crimes, one of which is the crime of illegal possession and possession of guns and ammunition. The criminal law stipulates this crime:

Whoever violates the regulations on gun management and illegally holds or conceals guns and ammunition shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.

He's not the only official linked to the charge, either.

For example, in December 2011, Bai Zhiming, the former deputy secretary-general of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee, was sentenced to death with a reprieve by the court in the first instance. According to official reports, Bai Zhiming was suspected of four crimes: bribery, corruption, huge amounts of property with unknown sources, and illegal possession of guns and ammunition.crime.

According to reports, after the incident, 177 rounds of 64-type pistol bullets and a shotgun were also seized from Bai Zhiming's home.

In October 2016, Feng Zhiming, the former deputy director of the Hohhot Public Security Bureau, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. One of the charges was illegal possession of guns and ammunition. The court found that Feng Zhiming had privately owned and hidden 4 guns and 549 rounds of ammunition..

In addition to the above two people, Zhao Liping, the former vice chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Political Consultative Conference who was executed in May 2017, also committed the crime.

The Supreme Court held that Zhao Liping violated the regulations on gun management and illegally possessed guns powered by gunpowder and 49 rounds of bullets. His behavior constituted the crime of illegal possession of guns and ammunition.Storage of explosives.